when you were young did you ever imagine or believe that you

>when you were young did you ever imagine or believe that you would be ok with the way things currently are?

I was too young to care about my civil liberties at all. By the time I was old enough to care, 9/11 already happened and everything had already gone down the shit pipe.

>>58663460
btw the thing in the op pic could be set up in the window of your neighbors house and pointed at a computer running or not, with you sitting at it, or not.

pointing that device at a human being has the unintended side effect of increasing the chances of getting cancer

>>58663460
Got mocked in school for saying 1984 wasn't some fictional book about the Cold War about about modern society. Oceania was made of the United States merging with other countries and yet everyone got tricked by the schools into believing it was if Russia won. Well, who is laughing now?

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>>58663460
Things like the image you posted don't bother me. Governments have always had ridiculous abilities in that area (around/slightly after WWII they were able to remotely detect what frequency radio receivers at the time were tuned to), but in order to use those abilities they still have to actually dedicate a good deal of manpower investigating a person/group of people which is impractical to do on a large scale. What bothers me is the widespread automated passive surveillance that happens today which does target everyone. For example your cell phone that you carry everywhere serves as a tracking device, as your carrier keeps the logs of what towers you connected to going back at least a year (pic related) and in the US they sell that information to advertisers.

Some information on cell service providers selling your location data from cell towers to advertisers:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3004493/mobile-wireless/how-wireless-providers-are-quietly-cashing-in-on-your-location-data.html
http://adage.com/article/datadriven-marketing/24-billion-data-business-telcos-discuss/301058/
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/9/4187654/how-carriers-sell-your-location-and-get-away-with-it
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-jose-will-track-cellphones-during-super-bowl-50/

And one of the companies that buys the data:
http://www.airsage.com/

>>58663460
Nobody this day and age is taught about law, personal rights, hell anything AT ALL of basic life skills.

I was more concerned about leveling up my online swords and sorcery character on my potato machine to wash away the pain of being beat up by bullies.

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>>58665853
>I was more concerned about leveling up my online swords and sorcery character on my potato machine to wash away the pain of being beat up by bullies.


M-me too man....

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>>58664917
Cell phones are probably a lost cause, but the internet can still be saved. We just have to hurry it up with the going dark.